{"id":85,"date":"2022-02-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=85"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:59:59","slug":"palante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/palante\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa\u2019lante"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Elena Adames Cama\u00f1o<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mechanics are the same.<br>You can turn a music box into a metronome.<br>You strip some parts out and<br>you introduce new pieces in,<br>but there are the same<br>gears<br>clicking together,<br>pushing and grinding,<br>making marvels from honed and shaped<br>metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mechanics are the same,<br>even if it looks different to the casual observer<br>who hasn&#8217;t touched the inside,<br>who hasn&#8217;t cracked open the diamond etched fa\u00e7ade,<br>who hasn&#8217;t gotten intimate with the mainspring and escapement,<br>who hasn&#8217;t replaced an oscillator to preserve<br>functionality, who doesn&#8217;t know this same gear train once fit together<br>into a clock,<br>who hasn&#8217;t seen the complex<br>become simpler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mechanics are the same<br>as you shed away<br>the excess,<br>the worn,<br>the pieces that just aren&#8217;t necessary anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Poetry South 13, 2021, pg. 47<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Adames Cama\u00f1o The mechanics are the same.You can turn a music box into a metronome.You strip some parts out andyou introduce new pieces in,but there are the samegearsclicking together,pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}